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...work had been "vulgarized in the rag trade." Another artist might have abandoned the style, but Riley never veered from her path and soon transcended the merely trendy. Today, at 72, she is one of the U.K.'s most celebrated artists, respected for a life spent pursuing her own singular vision. The first-ever overview of her 40-year career at Tate Britain (which runs until Sept. 28) shows how she rose above the Op Art fad. Monochrome mutates into color, and simple dots and triangles morph into ripples and barley-sugar twists, always following an internal logic...
While the festival included some presentations - one was on the history of underground comix, another featured Art Spiegelman - the publisher's ballrooms are the reason everyone shows up. Because the festival excludes mainstream and "genre" houses, the publishers who concentrate on singular artistic visions get a targeted demographic to die for. Consequently sales for these oftentimes one-woman operations far exceed those at most other conventions. Filled with interesting and often hard-to-find singularities, it becomes the best comicbook store in America for one day. So now it's getting crowded...
...Immersing oneself in such a universes as Marc Bell's "Shrimpy and Paul and Friends" is one of narrative art's greatest pleasures. The success of Marvel and DC's superhero franchises owe much to this transcendental escape. But because "Shrimpy and Paul" comes from the mind of a singular artist, it has a more singular vision. Goofy and delightfully baffling, you finish the book like you would come out of a supreme funhouse: dizzy, transcended and collapsed with laughter...
...media glare was unprecedented in the modern era, and the hype and hope merged into a singular motivation for the Crimson as it tried to extend its 12-game Ivy winning streak. But instead of a win, Harvard was handed its worst defeat in more than seven years...
That’s the way this team works. There has not been a singular hero this season, but there have been a plethora of heroic games and heroic moments...